Dew Drop – December 27, 2017 (#2632)

Top Links

• Deep-dive into .NET Core primitives: deps.json, runtimeconfig.json, and dll’s (Nate McMaster)
• Ex-Microsoft exec Julie Larson-Green shares her secrets on building great teams (Laurent Giret)
• Securing IIS Web Sites with Let’s Encrypt Certificates (Rick Strahl)
• Getting Started: MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms (Part 2) (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

• Mastering the React Lifecycle Methods (Gigi Sayfan)
• Top 10 Angular articles in 2017 from AngularInDepth you really want to read (Max NgWizard K)
• JavaScript Functions – Implicit Parameters (Muhammad Jawwad)
• Developing RESTful APIs with Lumen (A PHP Micro-framework) (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Generating a Cognitive Services API Key (David Giard)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• How to create Checkboxes in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Hello XML, My Old Friend; I’ve Come To Encode You Again. (Rion Williams)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Value of Test-Driven Development when Writing Changeable Code (David Bernstein)
• Microspeak: over-index (Raymond Chen)
• Continuous Delivery Shouldn’t Be Guesswork (Tom Smith)

Mobile & IoT

• Alexa Display Template Skill Design & Coding Deep Dive Part 1: Sourcing Alexa Skill Content (April Hamilton)
• Android Internals for Developers: Part II (Hemant Joshi)
• Design Alexa Skills for Echo Spot: 7 Tips to Get Started (Jennifer King)
• 3 Internet of Things Trends to Watch in 2018 (James Paine)
• Centralized reusable audio feedback mechanisms for Mixed Reality apps (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: Karl Scotland on what is Agile Strategy? (Vasco Duarte)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 232 | Looking Back at 2017 – the Show & Cloud News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Why there’s no Windows TV and will Microsoft make another Band? #AskDanWindows Ep 36 (Daniel Rubino)
• RunAs Radio – Office Macro Security with Karim El-Melhaoui (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Developer Things #4: Why 20,000 Developers Love Prefix with Jason Taylor (Matt Watson)
• Talk Python to Me #144 – Machine Learning at the Large Hadron Collider (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Engineering Daily – Software and Entrepreneurship with Seth Godin Holiday Repeat (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – 2017 Year End Recap (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• 7 Years of Daily .NET Tips (Abhijit Jana)
• Female DBAs Make Less Money. Why? (Brent Ozar)
• 25+ Brilliant Things To Do In Philadelphia This Week, December 26-January 1 (Grace Dickinson)
• A Future in Gaming: I’m headed for Blizzard Entertainment! (Joel Oleson)

Database

• Mining Time Series Data by Calculating Moving Averages with T-SQL Code in SQL Server (Rick Dobson)
• SQL SERVER – The SaveToSQLServer Method Has Encountered OLE DB Error Code 0x80004005 (Pinal Dave)
• Best New(ish) SSMS Feature (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

• Largest FREE Microsoft eBook Giveaway! I’m Giving Away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks again, including: Windows 10, Office 365, Office 2016, Power BI, Azure, Windows 8.1, Office 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, System Center, Cloud, SQL Server and more! | Microsoft Director of Business & Sales Operations (Eric Ligman)

PowerShell

• Different methods to write PowerShell output to a SQL table (Prashanth Jayaram)

Miscellaneous

• Will Windows phone fans finally get the device of their dreams? (Jason Ward)
• The Verge 2017 tech report cards (Natt Garun)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-27 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-27 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2493 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2001 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting links of the week (12/18 – 12/25, 2017) (Mike Eaton)

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